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GAME ART

EVENT: GRAND THEFT ARTAUD (MAY 29 2022, ATHENS, GREECE)

Sam Crane Grand Theft Artaud: Live performance and spectatorship inside online video games May 29 2022, 6 PM Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF) FutuRetro Athens, Greece What happens when you try to perform Shakespeare inside Grand Theft Auto Online, a game space notorious for its aggression and gratuitous violence? You

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GAME ART: ARON MEIER'S THE SKIN THEY PLAY IN (2022)

Aron Meier's investigate the relationship between players and avatars, recontexualizing the very meaning of "skin", which has different connotations in IRL and in gaming lingo. He writes: Before anyone even heard of the term metaverse, a group of people have long experienced first-hand what it means